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For better or worse, right now the right to bear arms only holds in your house, outside of the 7th Circuit (Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin), with litigation in the 9th Circuit (the west, specifically California and Hawaii) and D.C. Circuit in progress, and if there are adverse results in those Circuits we're almost positive the Supremes will continue to deny cert.

We in the US pro-gun camp consider self-defense to be an unalienable right (see e.g. the U.K. for a notorious counterexample), but how that applies to exploits is not to my eye simple.



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